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Exporting essentials at a cost

Zainab market in Karachi is a fairly big and renowned market for reasonably priced apparel. Previously stocked with expo

Updated 16 Nov, 2017 08:23am

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Entrepreneurship, World Bank and Pakistan

“Ali Baba one day sales crossed $25 billion! The entire annual exports of Pakistan are only $20 billion. Still don’t bel

Updated 14 Nov, 2017 02:16pm

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On PSDP disbursements

The spending pace of the trillion-rupee Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for fiscal year 2017-18 has visibly s

Updated 14 Nov, 2017 08:12am

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Judicial commercial handling capacity

Quite a few unfortunate incidences have happened in the recent past that call for judiciary capacity building in handlin

Updated 14 Nov, 2017 09:04am

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TPP: Trade in the age of Trump

The United States under its new Chief Donald Trump is a different America and indeed, as he embarks upon making his “Ame

Updated 14 Nov, 2017 12:31pm

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Twitter: lost for words

Change is a hard thing to cope with. And apparently more so on social media these days! Last week, Twitter doubled its t

Updated 13 Nov, 2017 09:02am

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Strategic Trade Policy Framework

Last year it was the US-funded PREIA that took the initiative to engage Pakistan’s private and public stakeholders for r

Updated 13 Nov, 2017 09:14am

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Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan trade

There have been several recent developments regarding transit trade to and trade with Afghanistan. Firstly, and most sig

Updated 13 Nov, 2017 09:18am

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Promoting rice and surgical goods exports to EU

While Pakistan benefits from high utilisation rates of textiles, exporters have not utilised GSP+ preferences for produc

Updated 10 Nov, 2017 07:29am

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Widening gender gap

One would think that with the economic development and social progress over the years, issues like gender inequality wou

Updated 10 Nov, 2017 09:18am

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More companies

First the LSM, and now the firm-level data; FY17 has proven to be a good year on both accounts. Just as the LSM growth w

Updated 09 Nov, 2017 08:31am

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Documentation at Torkham

New rules for clearing agents have been imposed at Torkham to govern cross-border trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Published 09 Nov, 2017 05:22am

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Trump: one year on

Exactly a year ago, the election of Donald J. Trump as US President shook the world. Trump’s divisive campaign relegated

Updated 08 Nov, 2017 08:37am

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Pakistan’s slow advance in Doing Business

The press is having a field day with Pakistan’s fall in World Bank’s Doing Business rankings. They have read it all wron

Published 07 Nov, 2017 06:44am

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Building transit trade’s coffin

For much too long we have believed Kabul to be dependent on Islamabad for trade. Even as transit trade tickled away from

Updated 06 Nov, 2017 08:24am

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The Ides of March

The anxious waiting game is on, for the Senate elections in March. The PML-N has been reduced to a glimmer of its once f

Published 06 Nov, 2017 07:29am

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KSE100: Drama on two-way street

At the stock market these days, a drama unfolds. The story is quite familiar: a love affair has gone sour and the distra

Updated 03 Nov, 2017 01:13pm

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Moderate inflation

The CPI clocked at 3.8 percent in October 2017. The monthly increase stood at 0.7 percent. The Jul-Oct headline inflatio

Published 03 Nov, 2017 07:15am

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Comeback for tobacco titans

Has the tide finally turned for Pakistan’s tobacco majors? The illicit tobacco trade had become so pervasive in recent q

Published 03 Nov, 2017 07:14am

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An escalating winter threat

It got spookier on the eve of October 31st in Lahore and adjoining areas - not because it was Halloween; but because the

Published 03 Nov, 2017 07:12am

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SBP highlights ill effects of protectionism

Since inception, the Pakistan economy has been gung ho about protectionism. Conventional wisdom suggests protectionism e

Updated 02 Nov, 2017 07:58am

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Kicking-off CPEC

In the good news segment, the 7th Joint Cooperation Committee of China Pakistan Economic Corridor is scheduled to be hel

Updated 01 Nov, 2017 09:12am

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PMPK bounces back

The times they are a changin’ for Marlboro Man in Pakistan! Philip Morris (Pakistan) Limited (PSX: PMPK) has broken the

Updated 31 Oct, 2017 09:03am

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Growth in food exports

Though exports declined from August this year, the first quarter of the fiscal year brings a case of cautious optimism.

Updated 31 Oct, 2017 09:48am

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LSM’s sharp take-off

It may be too early to make a bet, but the recently released LSM numbers hold a lot of promise for the ongoing fiscal ye

Updated 30 Oct, 2017 10:52am

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Non-machinery imports are rising

As per the PBS data, imports are up by 22 percent to $14.3 billion in 1QFY18; within it the machinery imports growth rem

Updated 25 Oct, 2017 07:25am

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The battle of trade-off

“Give me a one-handed economist”, an American president demanded many decades ago, expressing his frustration over how e

Updated 25 Oct, 2017 07:21am

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On boosting services exports

Pakistan’s services sector, which dominates the GDP, doesn’t do so well when it comes to exports. The SBP, in its latest

Published 24 Oct, 2017 05:29am

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Misguided duties

Finally there is some life in the finance department. Don’t mind if it is same old stuff. The press conference in the FB

Published 19 Oct, 2017 05:52am

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Make water a top priority

A so called resourceful country of Pakistan keeps facing natural resource depletion. The country seems to be coming out

Updated 19 Oct, 2017 08:10am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 15	278.43
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 15	278.23
USD to Japanese Yen / May 15	156.28
USD to Swiss Franc / May 15	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / May 15	1.26
Euro to USD / May 15	1.08

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 14	5246.68
Nasdaq / May 14	16511.18
Hang Seng / May 14	19073.71
Dow Jones / May 14	39558.11
India Sensex / May 15	73025.23
Tokyo Nikkei / May 15	38385.73
FTSE 100 / May 15	8467.99
Germany DAX 30 / May 15	18796.11

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / May 15	78.55
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / May 15	19935
Gold 10 Grams PKR / May 15	209191
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / May 15	2361.55
Cotton US¢/pound / May 15	74.42
Petrol/Litre / May 16	273.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 16 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 16 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 16 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 16 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 16 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 16 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 16 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 16 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 16 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / May 16 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / May 16 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 16 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 16 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 16 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 16 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 16 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 16 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / May 16 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / May 16 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / May 16 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / May 16 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / May 16 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / May 16 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / May 16 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / May 16 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / May 16 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / May 16 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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